Yu-Gi-Oh: Early Days Collection – Rare Card Pre-Order Bonus, Confirmed Games & More

Yu-Gi-Oh fans have been underserved when it comes to replaying some of the best games from the franchise’s heyday, but that’s all set to change with the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh: Early Days Collection. What’s most exciting about the upcoming compilation is that it includes Game Boy games that weren’t released outside of Japan the first time around. Yu-Gi-Oh: Early Days Collection doesn’t have a release date and Konami hasn’t revealed a full lineup of games, but from what we know so far, fans will want to keep an eye on this one. Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch physical edition are live now at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target for $50.

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The physical edition also includes one of two Quarter Century Secret Rare Harpie’s Feather Duster cards.

So far, five games have been announced for the collection:

• Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters (1998, Game Boy)
• Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 2: Dark Duel Stories (1999, Game Boy Color)
• Yu-Gi-Oh Dark Duel Stories (2000) (2000, Game Boy Color)
• Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists (2000, Game Boy Color)
• Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 (2001, Game Boy Advance)

Of those five games, only Dark Duel Stories was released in North America; the other four games were exclusive to Japan. Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters was the franchise’s first big hit, and the only one to be released on the original Game Boy. The series really took off on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance in the early 2000s.

In total, you can expect the compilation to include over 10 Yu-Gi-Oh games when it eventually releases.

While this Yu-Gi-Oh classic game collection doesn’t have a set release date yet, there’s still plenty of other Duel Monsters gear available. For fans of the anime series, the first Yu-Gi-Oh animated film gets a new steelbook edition Blu-ray This week (September 10). If you can be patient, there’s an adorable Seto Kaiba Nendoroid figure – don’t tell Kaiba we said that – coming in May 2025, and it comes with multiple face plates, cards, a Duel Disc, and a card-shaped pendant.

Yu-Gi-Oh: Trading Card Game 25th Anniversary Boxes

There are also several retro-themed trading card sets available to celebrate the franchise’s 25th anniversary,

For anyone who wants to go straight to the source, there are massive manga compilations from the series’ late creator Kazuki Takahashi available through Amazon and Walmart.

Yu-Gi-Oh Manga 3-in-1 Collections

For anyone who wants to go straight to the source, massive manga compilations from the late series creator Kazuki Takahashi are available through Amazon and Walmart. Each of these budget-friendly paperbacks contains three volumes and clocks in at around 600 pages. We’ve listed the first five books at each retailer.

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